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    Science-Packed Day Advancing Crew Health Before Cargo Mission Ends

    NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Anne McClain works on hardware maintenance tasks inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module. Behind McClain is Kibo's airlock where experiment hardware such as external exposure investigations and CubeSats are staged before being placed outside the orbiting lab into the vacuum of space.

    Vision studies, a blood investigation, and more were underway aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday informing scientists how astronauts adapt to long duration spaceflight. The knowledge gained from the ongoing investigations is helping NASA and its international partners protect crews while planning missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

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    Exercise Study, Blood Research Top Schedule Ahead of Cargo Missions

    NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers inserts a cryogenic storage unit, called a dewar, containing blood samples collected from a crew member into a science freezer for preservation and later analysis. The Minus Eighty-Degree Laboratory Freezer for International Space Station, or MELFI, is a research freezer that maintains experiment samples at ultra-cold temperatures in microgravity.

    Bone, muscle, and blood studies topped the research schedule aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday as the Expedition 72 crew continued exploring how microgravity affects human physiology. The orbital residents are also preparing for cargo missions coming and going at the orbital lab while keeping up life support maintenance.

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    Four New Crewmates Adjust to Station Life Following Crew-9 Return

    NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Suni Williams peers at the Earth below from inside the International Space Station's cupola. The orbital outpost was soaring 260 miles above the Indian Ocean at the time of this photograph.

    Four Expedition 72 crewmates are getting used to life aboard the International Space Station following their arrival on Saturday and the departure of the SpaceX Crew-9 mission on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a U.S. cargo craft is poised to be released from the orbital outpost ending a seven-and-a-half-month stay.

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Splashes Down Off Coast of Florida

    NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov have successfully splashed down in the Gulf of America, off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, at 5:57 p.m. EDT.  Hague and Gorbunov have been at the International Space Station since  Sept. 29, 2024, while Williams and Wilmore arrived on June 6. This...

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Return Continues, Dragon Completes Deorbit Burn

    SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft completed its deorbit burn at 5:18 p.m. EDT.   NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are less than an hour away from a splashdown off the coast of Florida.  Four minutes before splashdown, the drogue parachutes will deploy at about 18,000 feet in altitude...

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Prepares for Deorbit Burn

    Image shows astronaut in their suits inside the International Space Station

    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 crew members are moments away from a deorbit burn on their journey from the International Space Station to Earth.  The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, undocked from the space station at 1:05 a.m. EDT March 18.  The deorbit burn,...

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